The Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section

There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control.

When a new administration moves to Washington, DC, there are always changes in policy priorities and personnel. Alex, a lawyer in the Department of Justice’s Voting Section, had survived Donald Trump’s first term, and thought he could make it through the second.

Within hours of the president’s inauguration, he knew he had misjudged the situation.

“I was just wrong,” he says. “It was wildly different than the first Trump administration. There was just a sense that this was not going to be the same. And then in the Voting Section, what happened is they just started dismissing cases.”

The Voting Section was established in the agency’s ...